Greatest, being subjective, means there is technically no right or wrong answer since one person’s definition of greatest is the same as someone else.
But I would say Britain is the greatest nation on earth. The reason is that the agricultural revolution and industrial revolution started there, and without them the world we live in wouldn’t be possible. The age of reason was also partially British. Great British thinkers include Darwin and Newton.
Britain stood alone against the Nazis for a few years before Russia got involved in WW2.
Plus many of the nations today who are pioneering science, technology and medicine were heavily influenced by Britain. Places like Canada, the US, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Israel & India. Roughly 1/3 of all people who live in OECD nations either are British or live in nations heavily influenced by Britain.
So I’d consider Britain the greatest nation on earth (I’m from the US). Many of the advances that made the world we live in today possible came from Britain or nations heavily influenced by Britain.
The U.S. is the greatest nation on Earth. We’ve got decent size, natural resources, the world’s finest military, and a huge defensive advantage due to geography. We built The Bomb, we lead the world in space. All of that, plus we have the SEC and the NFL.
Uh, if you say so. I’d say a lot of qualified people disagree, unless you think 10th place or so is “relatively good.” Sure, we are better than all the 3rd world countries, but we suck in comparison to Japan, S. Korea and most of Europe. Same difference.
Primary and secondary school are nothing special here compared to other OECD nations (we are around the middle), but our tertiary education system is probably the best on earth.
The OP is very kind, but I don’t think we deserve that epithet these days. We have many things going for us and a good standard of living still, but we’re also pretty crap in many ways, overly bureaucratic, intrusive government, terrible weather, and very crowded.
I’d say one of the Scandawegian countries probably fits the bill. The one with the lowest taxes, whichever that is.
Obviously it’s America, but if we are gonna all historical and shit, then China is the longest lasting nation on Earth going through many iterations of government but maintaining a core identity for thousands of years.
